Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Roughly 1 in 93 Americans will die in a car accident. According to the National Safety Council, that's the math—even after seatbelts, airbags, sensors, and the smartest cars we've ever built. Cal foun...

30 Sep 20258min

Cal comes upon a book called The Fourth Turning Is Here which suggests that we're in a historical cycle of crisis when institutions collapse and a new world order emerges. Then he walks through the na...

23 Sep 20256min

Two dates. Separated by decades. Bound by a thread we'd all prefer didn't exist. Cal revisits the first—a day etched in memory that too many now treat as common behavior. He weighs the second—fresh in...

16 Sep 202514min

Raveling passed away early this month at 88 after living a life shaped by being in the right place at the right time — and knowing what to do when he got there. As a boy, after losing his father and s...

9 Sep 202516min

Billie Eilish was just 13 when she recorded the song Ocean Eyes in the bedroom of her home and her brother Finneas uploaded it to SoundCloud. Within weeks, hundreds of thousands had listened to it. Th...

2 Sep 202548min

Cal was ready to dump his storage bins of CDs, tape cassettes, and DVDs — until he discovered a twist: the world is racing back to the very things he was about to throw away. Parents are pulling out o...

26 Aug 20258min

Cal sits down with Jeff Burningham, author of The Last Book Written by a Human, to unpack the AI tidal wave about to hit classrooms, boardrooms, governments, and even religions. This isn't doomscrolli...

19 Aug 202555min

The NFL passed on Shedeur Sanders — son of Deion "Prime Time" Sanders — through the first four rounds of its 2025 draft, despite the quarterback's two electric seasons in college with Heisman trophy w...

12 Aug 202514min